MMC Norilsk Nickel is a Russian nickel and palladium mining and smelting company. Its largest operations are located in the Norilsk–Talnakh area near the Yenisei River, in northern Russia. It also has holdings near the Kola Peninsula at Nikel, Zapolyarny, and Monchegorsk; in western Finland at Harjavalta; in southern Africa in Botswana and South Africa; and in western Australia. MMC stands for "Mining and Metallurgical Company".
Norilsk Nickel is headquartered in Moscow and is the world's leading producer of nickel and palladium. It is ranked among the top ten copper producers.
The company is listed on MICEX-RTS. The key shareholders are Vladimir Potanin's Interros and Oleg Deripaska's Rusal: each reportedly owns over 25% of shares. In December 2010, Norilsk offered to buy out Rusal's share for US$12 billion, but the offer was declined.
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The Russian company was not subject to sanctions, but most foreign banks refuse to work with it due to toxicity.
Rosprirodnadzor wants to enforce a fine of 148 billion rubles for a fuel spill.
UC Rusa announced "obvious problems" with control over the work of Norilsk Nickel. This is how the company responded to Potanin's words that the shareholder agreement with UC Rusal had turned into a "rudiment" and an instrument of pressure.
The main owner of Norilsk Nickel considers the current shareholder agreement with Rusal to be a "rudiment".
The former head of the Federal Property Management Agency will become vice president of Norilsk Nickel.
The company will pay 1 billion rubles for the right to be the general partner of the Russian Hockey Federation.
The London court forbade Vladimir Potanin to increase the package without Oleg Deripaska.
The British court said why in a dispute between the shareholders of MMC Norilsk Nickel, he ruled in favor of Oleg Deripaska. An important factor was the strange refusal of Abramovich and Abramov to give testimony in favor of Potanin, whom they wanted to sell shares of MMC.
After the proposal of Andrei Belousov metallurgists and chemists to shell out for 513 billion rubles, his initiative was not supported by the RF Ministry of Finance. With the condition that the company invests this money all the same in Russia.
Despite the net profit for the past year of $ 1 billion, the aluminum company again has no money. In the event of requisition by the state of 513 billion rubles from Russian metallurgical and chemical companies, Rusal's losses due to the lack of dividends from MMC Norilsk Nickel will amount to 1.4 billion dollars.
Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Andrei Belousov, found where to take 537 billion rubles to finance the "May" decrees of the head of state. They will be taken from the profits of metallurgists, producers of fertilizers and Sibur.
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The situation of "Rusal" will worsen if the US does not remove sanctions from the company until the end of the summer.
The largest shareholder of Norilsk Nickel explained that if he had combined the packages with other co-owners, they would have saved: the tax on dividends is not paid when holding more than 50%. But the partners refused.
UC Rusal accused Vladimir Potanin of collusion with Roman Abramovich when agreeing on the terms of the purchase of 4% of Norilsk Nickel, and an additional incentive was a deal on the Baim deposit. Potanin denies all this.
Oleg Deripaska's company due to US sanctions will not participate in the "Russian Roulette" with Vladimir Potanin for the shares of Norilsk Nickel. Now this will not correspond to the interests of shareholders, the board of directors of the aluminum company decided.
UC Rusal will make a decision about this until the end of April.
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Oleg Deripaska, whose companies are burdened with debts, and Vladimir Potanin, who launched several large investment projects, agreed to buy out 4% of Norilsk Nickel from Roman Abramovich. The amount of the transaction can be about 1.5 billion dollars. But the conflict between billionaires is far from over.
But Oleg Deripaska can still deploy the deal.
MMC Norilsk Nickel doubled its debt load for 2017. This should lead to a reduction in dividends, the increase of which requires the debt-bound Oleg Deripaska.
The list of richest people in Russia, according to Forbes magazine, was replaced by the leader. He became the owner of a controlling stake in the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine (NLMK) Vladimir Lisin. His state of the publication was estimated at 19.1 billion dollars.
Vladimir Potanin proposes to pay 1.5 billion dollars a year, and the entangled debt of Deripaska requires 2.5 billion dollars.
The company can buy a majority stake in the Baim copper project, which is also interested in Norilsk Nickel.
Entangled scandalous businessman will depart from the management of En + and "Rusal".
The former spouse of the head of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, claims 1 trillion rubles.
Norilsk Nickel may buy out a stake in Russian Platinum in a new joint venture.